One Laptop per Child's mission is to create educational opportunities
for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a
rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and
software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in
their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They
become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
OLPC, in conjunction with the Sugar learning platform, is currently
delivering the education dream to over one million children in 19
languages and 31 countries. Many locations require non-English based
systems, may rely on non-traditional power sources such as solar, and
work on offline network technologies akin to sneakernets. This chapter
addresses the spectrum of pedagogy from instructional to
constructivist environments and how OLPC is addressing these needs
around the world. This chapter also examines the power and
connectivity constraints in a framework to present and explore
educational challenges in both most and least developed nations.
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One Laptop per Child's mission is to create educational opportunitiesfor the world's poorest children by providing each child with a
rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and
software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in
their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They
become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.
OLPC, in conjunction with the Sugar learning platform, is currently
delivering the education dream to over one million children in 19
languages and 31 countries. Many locations require non-English based
systems, may rely on non-traditional power sources such as solar, and
work on offline network technologies akin to sneakernets. This chapter
addresses the spectrum of pedagogy from instructional to
constructivist environments and how OLPC is addressing these needs
around the world. This chapter also examines the power and
connectivity constraints in a framework to present and explore
educational challenges in both most and least developed nations.
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